Resolution for Articles of Impeachment
Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) has introduced Articles of Impeachment against Vice President Richard Cheney. The Articles and supporting documentation can be found here.
Summary
Article I
In his conduct while Vice President of the United States, Richard B. Cheney, in violation of his constitutional oath to faithfully execute the office of Vice President of the United States and, to the best of his ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States, and in violation of his constitutional duty to take care that the laws be faithfully executed, has purposely manipulated the intelligence process to deceive the citizens and Congress of the United States by fabricating a threat of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction to justify the use of the United States Armed Forces against the nation of Iraq in a manner damaging to our national security interests....
Article II
In his conduct while Vice President of the United States, Richard B. Cheney, in violation of his constitutional oath to faithfully execute the office of Vice President of the United States and, to the best of his ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States, and in violation of his constitutional duty to take care that the laws be faithfully executed, purposely manipulated the intelligence process to deceive the citizens and Congress of the United States about an alleged relationship between Iraq and al Qaeda in order to justify the use of the United States Armed Forces against the nation of Iraq in a manner damaging to our national security interests....
Article III
In his conduct while Vice President of the United States, Richard B. Cheney, in violation of his constitu1tional oath to faithfully execute the office of Vice President of the United States and, to the best of his ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States, and in violation of his constitutional duty to take care that the laws be faithfully executed, has openly threatened aggression against the Republic of Iran absent any real threat to the United States, and done so with the United States proven capability to carry out such threats, thus undermining the national security of the United States....
In all of this, Vice President Richard B. Cheney has acted in a manner contrary to his trust as Vice President, and subversive of constitutional government, to the prejudice of the cause of law and justice and the manifest injury of the people of the United States.
Wherefore Richard B. Cheney, by such conduct, warrants impeachment and trial, and removal from office.
Summary
Article I
In his conduct while Vice President of the United States, Richard B. Cheney, in violation of his constitutional oath to faithfully execute the office of Vice President of the United States and, to the best of his ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States, and in violation of his constitutional duty to take care that the laws be faithfully executed, has purposely manipulated the intelligence process to deceive the citizens and Congress of the United States by fabricating a threat of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction to justify the use of the United States Armed Forces against the nation of Iraq in a manner damaging to our national security interests....
Article II
In his conduct while Vice President of the United States, Richard B. Cheney, in violation of his constitutional oath to faithfully execute the office of Vice President of the United States and, to the best of his ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States, and in violation of his constitutional duty to take care that the laws be faithfully executed, purposely manipulated the intelligence process to deceive the citizens and Congress of the United States about an alleged relationship between Iraq and al Qaeda in order to justify the use of the United States Armed Forces against the nation of Iraq in a manner damaging to our national security interests....
Article III
In his conduct while Vice President of the United States, Richard B. Cheney, in violation of his constitu1tional oath to faithfully execute the office of Vice President of the United States and, to the best of his ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States, and in violation of his constitutional duty to take care that the laws be faithfully executed, has openly threatened aggression against the Republic of Iran absent any real threat to the United States, and done so with the United States proven capability to carry out such threats, thus undermining the national security of the United States....
In all of this, Vice President Richard B. Cheney has acted in a manner contrary to his trust as Vice President, and subversive of constitutional government, to the prejudice of the cause of law and justice and the manifest injury of the people of the United States.
Wherefore Richard B. Cheney, by such conduct, warrants impeachment and trial, and removal from office.
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There’s an old axiom in politics - "you have all the arguments, but we have the votes." So, for discussion sake, let’s presume that the House does impeach Cheney, which 67 Senators will vote to convict? Any Republicans ? If the Democrats confirm an Attorney General that cannot determine that waterboarding is torture, how will they vote to convict Cheney ? Haven’t many of these same Senators voted to approve spending on this mission long after the dates cited in Kuchinich’s documentation? Wouldn’t these Senators be saying that they were aware that Cheney “blemished the truth” and yet approved the consequential actions ?
I have to wonder what the boys at VFW Post 9908 must think of their boy, “Dennis the Kuchinich … the People’s Mayor to the Finitch”. I lived in Cleveland when he couldn’t get snow removed and the city went into default. He’s not the one to lead a series charge of impeachment. At least Kuchinich has not limited himself to Iraq, as he includes Iran in the impeachment discussion.
Cheney will be a significant figure in history … and we won’t have to wait generations for historians to decide his fate.
True story. In 1982, in the course of a discussion about the function of the Vice President, a friend suggested that it should be eliminated … stating “What do they do? They’re worthless. I will bet that if you went up to ten people at random and ask them to name the Vice President, I bet over half wouldn’t know that it was Walter Mondale.” I had to confess that I agreed with the sentiment but not the answer … since George Bush was Vice President in 1982 !
This story just illustrates that Vice Presidents are largely forgotten in history … but Dick Cheney’s fate is guaranteed -- with or without an impeachment charge.
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